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Yeah that's basically one of the issue they have with designing skills, they don't really go crazy with stuff that has a lot of constraints as a way to compensate, so it oftens ends up meh instead since it's just constraints and no upside. It's the general issue with melee, so instead of making melee super strong but limited range, good at like killing bosses and stuff, they're just trying to make melee more and more like range with stupid aoes(EQ) and range(reave, flurry). Not that you could scale damage to make small range/aoe appealing now either though, since even the biggest aoes clear bosses in seconds due to all the multiplicative modifiers on supports they keep adding to the game and all the double dipping mechanics with ignite and poison.
Byr
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Wait for a day or two before to see the patch notes, then decide. Its to early to decide when you havnt seen the buffs/nerfs yet.
Caliane
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And Essence is being added as CORE game.
I stand corrected.
Forum - Development Manifesto - Essence As a Core Game Mechanic - Path of Exile
"about 1/6th" the frequency compared to current. this will be balanced by having lower tiers stop dropping, to keep them more relevant.
Also, a few of the OP ones are being nerfed. This is important, as they are not retroactive. Except for Decay.
if you want the OP more attack/cast speed 5l gloves, GET THEM NOW. Some potential legacy items being created for standard currently.
I stand corrected.
Forum - Development Manifesto - Essence As a Core Game Mechanic - Path of Exile
"about 1/6th" the frequency compared to current. this will be balanced by having lower tiers stop dropping, to keep them more relevant.
Also, a few of the OP ones are being nerfed. This is important, as they are not retroactive. Except for Decay.
if you want the OP more attack/cast speed 5l gloves, GET THEM NOW. Some potential legacy items being created for standard currently.
zombiewizardhawk
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Fireball or fire surge on scorching ray channeling? Not really sure what else you could do with it that would be useful.
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Can do Blight+ED. It's not very good, but it's not complete garbage either, probably won't see much use with these numbers and might get buffed to become OP as fuck in a future patch.
Best idea I've seen, possibly, is a burn build with Scorching Ray+Detonate Dead. Burn shit down with scorching, and as they die shit starts exploding automatically and everything dies. Sounds fairly decent, although I don't know how good it'd really be.
They're probably going to be buffing channeling spells a bit before 2.5 too, so that's something.
Best idea I've seen, possibly, is a burn build with Scorching Ray+Detonate Dead. Burn shit down with scorching, and as they die shit starts exploding automatically and everything dies. Sounds fairly decent, although I don't know how good it'd really be.
They're probably going to be buffing channeling spells a bit before 2.5 too, so that's something.
zombiewizardhawk
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Yeah I thought of blight + ED too but I don't see how that would be anything other than a worse version of current ED+Contagion builds.
I just don't really understand what they were going for with Blight at all. I can see where they're coming from with Scorching since it can be used in conjunction with a lot of the other fire spells to buff them (even without Cast on Channel, like all the videos GGG has shown of it with flameblast totems etc.) but with blight you're facetanking mobs/bosses instead of just throwing an ED into them and continuing to run to stay alive.
I just don't really understand what they were going for with Blight at all. I can see where they're coming from with Scorching since it can be used in conjunction with a lot of the other fire spells to buff them (even without Cast on Channel, like all the videos GGG has shown of it with flameblast totems etc.) but with blight you're facetanking mobs/bosses instead of just throwing an ED into them and continuing to run to stay alive.
Caliane
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I feel cast on channel will not be immediately useful, since the channeling spells in most ways do not scale with the same thing on hit spells do.
Spell damage yes. But, duration, faster cast, no crit, no ignite, etc.
These channeling skills scale most directly with faster cast. which wont scale with cast on channel.
Spell damage yes. But, duration, faster cast, no crit, no ignite, etc.
These channeling skills scale most directly with faster cast. which wont scale with cast on channel.
Caliane
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I didn't know this was created.
Path of building. 1 stop shop for TOTAL character building.
Forum - Gameplay Help and Discussion - Path of Building: New Offline Build Planner [v1.2.14] New skills added! - Path of Exile
you can import your character. And adjust skill gems, passives, and gear. Turn on buffs, turn off buffs. set up "killed recently" etc. almost total customization to plan a character.
Path of building. 1 stop shop for TOTAL character building.
Forum - Gameplay Help and Discussion - Path of Building: New Offline Build Planner [v1.2.14] New skills added! - Path of Exile
you can import your character. And adjust skill gems, passives, and gear. Turn on buffs, turn off buffs. set up "killed recently" etc. almost total customization to plan a character.
Byr
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Stop worrying about it, relax, go have a drink. Come back when patch notes are out and let them inspire you.
Caliane
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"we reviewed feedback on the introduction of the new channeling skills. We feel Blight was underpreforming, and needed to be looked at again. Additionally, Blade flurry was causing fps issues due to its interactions.
"Blade Flurry "more attack speed" reduced to 55%. Damage increase per stage increased to 70% per stage."
"Blight damage increased 6%. Debuff stacks reduced to 3 to compensate."
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Wither is a channeled skill, so you could do Wither + Contagion and then separately socket Essence Drain with max damage/duration gems.
zombiewizardhawk
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So i'm 99.9% sure I want to do another evasion raider ele wild strike next league... Just gotta figure out how I can avoid being 1shot by some of the bosses since that was the only issue I had on her last league, couldn't kill uber izaro/argus and a couple of the new bosses might be problems too.
Caliane
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Life and more life.
I don't like Evasion, and really don't like Raider. not sure why anyone would go raider with pathfinder existing.
My frostblades pathfinder has survival layered. First life is obvious priority on gear. A belly of the beast I consider #1 for melee ranger/duelists. But didn't get my hands on one either in reality.
Rumis is obviously good as well.
Passive Skill Tree - Path of Exile
5023 or so hp atm.
Perma fortify with Fortify on frostblades itself. end cry. cwdt+ic. does NOT have vaal pact, so has constant regen. Has pathfinder surgeons, on instant life flask.
Decoy totem. gear hybrid ar/ev.+rumis of iron skin.
As pathfinder, get perma status immune, and 8% elem DR. As well of course flask effect for those flasks, and flask charge gain in combat.
If raider, just drop ambidex, and get phase acro instead. But frankly, you are giving up elem damage, and a ton of defenses from the increased flask up time and effect, and "breaking" rumis/granite, from acrobatics 50%/30% less.
Some people do of course go even further, in grabbing scion life nodes.
This is about what that would look like.
http://poeplanner.com/AAMAAWRBQU1DQ...mSG5mRnQ5ejNfRUE9PQAQQUFBQ0FBZlFBUUgwQVFBQQAA
I don't like Evasion, and really don't like Raider. not sure why anyone would go raider with pathfinder existing.
My frostblades pathfinder has survival layered. First life is obvious priority on gear. A belly of the beast I consider #1 for melee ranger/duelists. But didn't get my hands on one either in reality.
Rumis is obviously good as well.
Passive Skill Tree - Path of Exile
5023 or so hp atm.
Perma fortify with Fortify on frostblades itself. end cry. cwdt+ic. does NOT have vaal pact, so has constant regen. Has pathfinder surgeons, on instant life flask.
Decoy totem. gear hybrid ar/ev.+rumis of iron skin.
As pathfinder, get perma status immune, and 8% elem DR. As well of course flask effect for those flasks, and flask charge gain in combat.
If raider, just drop ambidex, and get phase acro instead. But frankly, you are giving up elem damage, and a ton of defenses from the increased flask up time and effect, and "breaking" rumis/granite, from acrobatics 50%/30% less.
Some people do of course go even further, in grabbing scion life nodes.
This is about what that would look like.
http://poeplanner.com/AAMAAWRBQU1DQ...mSG5mRnQ5ejNfRUE9PQAQQUFBQ0FBZlFBUUgwQVFBQQAA
